I'd be interested to know how much and what all is being trans-smuggled for other organizations. However, maybe losing this guy will hurt a bit.

Given the growing brazen nature of what is happening with the drug war up and down the Mexican border (and awfully quiet on the media front for a lot
of it), I'm sincerely happy when the Mexican officials get some luck and make a serious accomplishment. It's been a long and very rough war down
there between the cartels and then between them all at once vs. the federal government.

It'd be nice for the normal folks down there if the chaos started to turn toward stability where it's been worst.

That does seem odd for someone in his position. It sounds like he had no security at all. The article also notes he was in competition or contention
(They don't make context real clear there) for overall command of the region.

I wonder if someone insured he was arrested to force personnel changes? I didn't think of them as being that subtle or using the law for such a
problem, but who knows. Perhaps something more personal at work?

Using the law is a good way to take someone down when you don't want your fingerprints on it. Give them an anonymous credible tip and go about your
business. In an organization where you need to maintain the appearance of loyalty to those above you getting an outside source to take down your
rival is valuable. For example lets say there's a boss of an area and there's two lieutenants in contention to be moved up. The boss favors one
but thinks of the other as a backup. You can't simply take out the one he favors without backlash, but if you get the law to do it, you accomplish
your goals without the backlash.

Not knowing all the relationships involved with the guy they captured it's tough to say that was the case but it's not unheard of either.

Hey, lets hear one for Mexico! They have been having some success here lately...

It'd be nice for the normal folks down there if the chaos started to turn toward stability

Yes, our previous administration really created a whole bunch of that good ol' stability down here with his big Drug War. Now maybe the US can
show us how its done and clean out some of their own drug-running factions from high places, maybe even quash the demand for such substances a little
bit.

I was applauding states like Colorado and Washington and others that see the fallacy of all this and are really doing something to bring an end to the
whole illicit drug trade scam. There really is only one way to put an end to all this and it looks like some are taking steps in the right
direction.

That opium trade with China from a couple hundred years ago really showed the folks how to bring 'drug justice' to the world, didn't it? How did that
all end up? Or did it?

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